Rebecca Long-Bailey

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Rebecca Long-Bailey (June 2017)

Rebecca Long-Bailey (born September 22, 1979 in Stretford , Trafford ) is a British politician and member of the House of Commons . She has represented the constituency of Salford and Eccles since the British general election in 2015 and is a member of the Labor Party .

Rebecca Roseanne Long - she only adopted her double name after she married Stephen Bailey, with whom she has a child - was born to Irish parents. She attended Chester Catholic High School and then studied political science and sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University . She then worked as a solicitor for various law firms, including Pinsent Masons . She specialized in commercial law and NHS employment contracts.

In 2015 she was elected to the House of Commons. She received 49.4% of the vote. In the 2017 general election , she was able to increase her election result to 65.6% of the vote. From June 2016 to February 2017 she was Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury . Long-Bailey has been the Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy since February 2017 .

According to the media, she was for a short period of time as the unofficial successor of Jeremy Corbyn and this as politically close. She was one of those MPs who nominated him as party leader in the successor election in 2015. In October 2019, she called on Corbyn to resign if he lost the upcoming elections .

Long-Bailey at an appearance during her campaign for party leadership

On January 7, 2020, Long-Bailey announced her candidacy to chair the Labor Party. She was supported by John McDonnell and Angela Rayner , with whom she shares an apartment in London. Throughout the campaign, she was seen as the candidate who is in the continuity of Corbyn and who most fully supported Corbyn's positions. In an ITV interview, she gave him a 10 out of 10 when she was asked to account for his time as party leader. Long-Bailey also said in an interview that if she wins, she would like to call Corbyn into her new shadow cabinet because she adores him. She also announced that she wanted to govern the party with a hard hand. As a result, Long-Bailey failed and was with 27.6% of the vote only the second-placed runner-up behind the winner Keir Starmer , who received 56.2% of the votes. After Long-Bailey's failure, observers compared her campaign unfavorably to that of the left-wing Richard Burgon , who also represented very left-wing ideals in the election of the deputy chairman.

Starmer named Long-Bailey shortly afterwards for education in his shadow cabinet. In June 2020, however, Long-Bailey was fired from Starmer for approvingly shared an interview with actress Maxine Peake on Twitter that contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. While Peake later withdrew her original allegations and subsequently distanced herself, Long-Bailey had refused to delete her related tweets.

She tweeted just a general distancing on June 25th: “I retweeted Maxine Peake's article because of her special achievements and because she argued for staying in the Labor Party. It was not meant to support all aspects of the article. ”In the Daily Mirror , she continued that there was a valid concern about police violence , that she did not see anti-Semitism in the criticism of the police and that criticism of the police was made in the correct wording , even for legitimate.

Criticism of the dismissal came from the party left around party leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Momentum campaign that supported him. In contrast, various Jewish organizations in particular loudly praised Starmer's decision.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Neal Keeling: High-flying solicitor is in the running to stand for Hazel Blears seat. June 20, 2014, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  3. ^ David Holmes: Labor leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey has Chester and Frodsham links. cheshire-live.co.uk, January 11, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  4. ^ Labor's legal leaders join Shadow Cabinet rebellion. June 26, 2016. Retrieved October 31, 2019 (UK English).
  5. ^ Profiles: Labor MP Rebecca Long-Bailey. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ Salford & Eccles parliamentary constituency - Election 2017 . ( bbc.com [accessed October 31, 2019]).
  7. ^ Corbyn unveils new team after walkouts . June 27, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed October 31, 2019]).
  8. ^ Rebecca Long-Bailey: Corbyn loyalist seen as heir apparent . June 28, 2019, ISSN  0140-0460 ( thetimes.co.uk [accessed October 31, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Row as Corbyn's 'heir' Long-Bailey gets role picking London MPs. October 11, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Growing calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down if Labor loses election. Retrieved October 31, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Labor Party begins search for a successor for Jeremy Corbyn. Zeit online, January 7, 2020, accessed on April 4, 2020 .
  12. ^ Rebecca Long-Bailey would offer Jeremy Corbyn a place in her shadow Cabinet. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Maxine Peake: 'People who couldn't vote Labor because of Corbyn? They voted Tory as far as I'm concerned '. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . "The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd's neck, that was learned from seminars with Israeli secret services." ("The practice that the police in America used to kneel on George Floyd's neck was learned at seminars with the Israeli intelligence service."). Long-Bailey's June 25 tweet read: "Maxine Peake is an absolute diamond."
  14. ^ Labor's Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked in anti-Semitism row. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Rebecca Long-Bailey sacking reignites Labor turmoil over antisemitism. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Maxine Peake's bizarre George Floyd claim. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey over 'antisemitic conspiracy theory' article. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  15. ↑ Rebecca Long-Bailey speaks out after being sacked from Labor front bench amid anti-Semitism row. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  16. ↑ Rebecca Long-Bailey: Ed Miliband says Labor left-wingers are not facing 'purge'. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ Rebecca Long-Bailey defenders 'guilty of anti-Semitism' says Griffith. Retrieved June 28, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Long-Bailey, Rebecca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP in the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd September 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Stretford , Trafford